I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.
We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.
Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle.
I stumbled some, then a hand pushed my head down and I was inside the Hummer.
Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.